World Cultures Daily Round Up for 2 January 2007


Scribed by: Kirste, Corey, Kirste, Alyssa,Jessica, Shea, Zach, Alex, Brittani

Activities for today
  • Describe acitivies for class
  • Took notes over WWII about the US Bombing Japan
  • Got weekly guide to tell us what were doing for the week
  • took notes on Atomic Bomb and how much damage it can cuse in a little amount of time!
  • Learned about how nuclear weapons work
  • We got notes on Japan and World War II.
  • We had a picture of the day on people with too much time on their hands. They covered a Jag with post-it notes.
  • Picture of the day then we took notes and had a disscusion on the atomic bomb drop
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Concepts covered in class with brief summary
  • Describe important concepts covered in class
  • Learned about 3 kinds of nuclear damages: pressure damage, fallout, and nuclear winter
  • Atomic bomb, Quiz friday, sticky notes, lol, and Semester tests coming up.
  • The firist successful testing of the a-bomm was on July 16, 1945 in New Mexico.
  • who droped the first and only atomic bomb?
  • Japan needed resources so went and took land from other countries to get the land.
  • Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, at 7:55 am. They sunk 5 major ships and 11 others. 2,400 Americans were killed and more damage was done then all of WWI combined.
  • US declares war on Japan after Pearl Harbor
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Assignments for tomorrow or later
  • Describe assignments made in class today
  • Read Chapter 28 sections 1 and 2. Study for Quiz and Semesters.
  • Scribe on the wiki
  • Everything You Know About China
  • China is called the People's Republic of China and the capital is Beijing but used to be known as Peking.
  • Main langauge is Mandarin
  • Women usually wear red on their wedding day to symbolize happiness.
  • Has a population of about 1.3 billion people.
  • They have a very high population density.
  • It is made up of mostly mountains and deserts.
  • The capital is Beijing.


Additional resources and interesting items related to class today
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